Lovech, Bulgaria · Europe
Apriltsi is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Troyan, 44km from Devetashka Cave.
Apriltsi is in Lovech, Bulgaria, with about 3,900 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Troyan, about 17 km away.
Apriltsi (Bulgarian: Априлци [ɐˈpriɫt͡si]) is a small town in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the vicinity of the highest part of Stara Planina mountain. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Apriltsi Municipality. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 3,318.
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favourable location in a valley at the foot of Botev Peak in the Balkan Mountains, Apriltsi is a newly developing tourist resort in the region. Besides Botev, notable peaks in the area are Triglav and Maragidik.
The town was founded by the merging of four large mountain villages: Novo Selo, Zla Reka, Vidima, and Ostrets, which are today the town's neighbourhoods. Due to this, it has a rather rural appearance with some 19th-century Bulgarian houses preserved.
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Within an hour or so of Apriltsi: Troyan Pass (Beklemeto) (26 km), Shipka Pass (34 km), Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex (35 km), Buzludzha Monument (41 km).
The nearest famous roads are Troyan Pass (Beklemeto), Shipka Pass and Iskar Gorge.
Apriltsi is in Lovech, Bulgaria, about 17 km from Troyan.
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Full driving guide for Bulgaria7 notable places within an hour's drive.
mountain pass
At 1,525 m the highest paved pass over the Balkan Mountains, following an old Roman road between Troyan and Karnare with hairpins, panoramic ridgeline views and the Arch of Freedom monument.
26 km · about 30 min drive
mountain pass
A historic 1,150m Balkan Mountains pass crowned by the Freedom Monument commemorating the 1877 battle.
34 km · about 40 min drive
museum
An open-air museum village near Gabrovo where water-driven workshops from the Bulgarian Revival still operate: craftsmen forge, weave and carve along a lane of 50 reconstructed houses powered by the Sivek river.
35 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
A colossal flying-saucer-shaped Communist monument abandoned on a 1,432m Balkan peak.
41 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
A vast cathedral-like cavern with light-shafted ceiling holes, home to thousands of bats near Lovech.
44 km · about 50 min drive
waterfall
Turquoise travertine cascades tumbling through forested terraces in central Bulgaria.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Bulgaria's only town-museum: a Sredna Gora valley of cobbled lanes and brightly painted National Revival mansions where the 1876 April Uprising began. Six house-museums preserve the interiors of merchants and revolutionaries.
52 km · about 60 min drive
5 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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